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From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Origin of the name "BNC" connector
Message-ID: <6953@fluke.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 15:45:37 GMT
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In article <2987@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
}In article <6918@fluke.COM>, strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes:
}> }BNC = Baby N Connector.
}> }TNC = Threaded N Connector.
}> 
}> WRONG! WRONG!  
}> 
}> BNC = Bayonet Navy Connector
}> TNC = Threaded Navy Connector
}
}	I'm not certain that anyone posting on this topic has been correct.

I received the above info from the presidents of 2 companies that make their
living manufacturing BNC and TNC connectors.  If you can't believe them, who
can you believe?
-- 

Norm   (strong@tc.fluke.com)